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 A publication of Prescott College, Alligator Juniper features contemporary poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and black-and-white fine arts photography. We encourage submissions from writers at all levels, especially emerging and early-career writers. Past issues of Alligator Juniper have included interviews with nationally known authors from our Southwest Writers Series. Alligator Juniper has won the AWP Directors' Prize in Content for Undergraduate Literary Magazines three times.
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THE 2010 ISSUE IS NOW OUT! Featuring the work of 41 talented writers and photographers, copies are available for $10 each through the address at the bottom of this page.
Congratulations to our 2010 National and Student Writing and Photography Contest Winners, and thank you to all who entered. (Complete list of winners.)
National Prizewinners
Fiction:
“Wings Raised Up ” by
Laurie Ann Doyle
Poetry:
“In Leaving My Lover Teaches Me Half a Bible Story ” by
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Creative Nonfiction:
“The Mormon Martyr’s Guide to Chemical Reactions ” by
Miles Fuller
Photography:
“Covenant Transport I ” by
Marilyn Szabo (selected by
David Taylor)
Prescott College Student Prizewinners
Fiction:
“How to Become a Model ” by
Laura Hitt (selected by
Vickie Weaver)
Poetry:
“Tierra Bendita ” by
Jessica Roth (selected by
Zach Savage)
Creative Nonfiction:
“White Birds ” by
Jessica Roth (selected by
Dianne Aprile)
Photography:
“Guardian Angel ” by
K. Angeline Pittenger (selected by David Taylor)
AND SOME KUDOS...
Two of the Prescott College student prizewinners appearing in the 2009 issue were selected for an anthology of best undergraduate work published in the country in 2009: Jillian Fragale’s “Splitting in Half” (creative nonfiction) and K. Angeline Pittenger’s “Untitled” (photography) appeared in plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009, published online during spring term 2010 by Bennington College. Alligator Juniper was one of more than 60 journals in the reading mix, along with publications from Brown, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Reed, Rice, Stanford, and Tulane.
We're proud to announce that for the third time in our previous 13 years of publishing, Alligator Juniper has won the AWP Director’s Prize in Content for Undergraduate Literary Magazines! You can find a full press release on this here.
Congratulations to our authors nominated for inclusion in the 2009 Pushcart Prize Anthology:
Michaela Carter’s poem “Goldilocks”
Catherine Dryden’s essay “River Voices”
Matt Mendez’s short story “Airman”
Justin St. Germain’s short story “The Last Day of the Boom”
Robert Schirmer’s short story “Levitate”
Elizabeth Volpe’s poem “Without”
Kathleen Kirk, whose work appeared in our 2002 and 2003 issues, has published a chapbook, Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, 2009), which includes the poem “At Dusk,” first published in Alligator Juniper.
Justin St. Germain’s story “The Last Day of the Boom” from our 2008 issue was included in Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri (University of Texas Press, 2009).
Kevin Brown’s story “One Life” from our 2007 issue was included in the teaching anthology Voices published by The Institute.
Elton Glaser’s poem “Drinking Alone on a Spring Day,” published in Alligator Juniper 2007, was featured on Verse Daily.
Anna Green’s story “Food Stamps,” published in Alligator Juniper 2006, appeared in the anthology New Stories from the Southwest, published by the Ohio University Press in January 2008.
Sally Ball’s poem “’Tis Often Thus with Spirits” and Claire Whitenack's poem “At the Fish Hatchery,” both published in our 2006 issue, were featured on Verse Daily.
E-mail: aj@prescott.edu
Mail: Alligator Juniper, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott,
AZ 86301
Phone: (928) 350-2012
Fax: (928) 776-5137
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